The Golden Chapel of Sin
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Town
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W
ritten by Ussiri Dharmmachoti
Translated by Supannee Pinmanee
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The Golden Chapel of Sin
-
Town
โบสถ์สีทองของเมืองบาป
The Abbot of Wat ̳Ban Pa‘*
was worried when the Buddhi
st Lent
was ending so soon and
n
o
one had yet booked a Kathin
*
* offering
ceremony at his monastery. He looked at what would be the Golden
Chapel of
the village Wat and saw that its roof was still open to the sky
all down the west side because there was not yet enough money to buy
the last tiles. He could but sigh in despair. The village had been under the
spell of a drought all year, the villagers wer
e poorer than usual, a
nd the
new chapel had not been finished.